Suburban snowmen
Facilitating factors in the careers of middle-class coke dealers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2152530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Curcione (Loyola Marymount University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 233-253 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.1997.9968057 |
| OpenAlex | W1988160158 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article is a descriptive analysis of the structural factors facilitating a career in drug dealing. A field study focusing on the commitment paths of six middle‐level, suburban‐based cocaine dealers was conducted over a 1.5‐year period. A major finding was that entry into full‐time trafficking was instituted by opportunities developed in the context of conventional occupational careers
Business · Class (philosophy · Coke · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Descriptive statistics · Economics · Geography · Middle class · Period (music · Political science · Waste management · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Taking Care of Business
Delinquency and opportunity
Principles of Criminology
Delinquency and Drift
Delinquency and Opportunity
Sport and the Sociological Imagination
Drug Abuse in the Inner City
Society's Shadow
The drugs-crime connection
Taking Care of Business—The Heroin User's Life on the Street
Social Theory and Social Structure
On Phenomenological Sociology
Techniques of Neutralization
Inside the drug trade
Drifting into dealing
The culture of gangs in the culture of the school
Opium and the People
Drugs-Crime Connections
Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers
Drug Entrepreneurs and Dealing Culture
Cats, Kicks, and Color
Playing a Cold Game
Slinging Weed
The Influence of Situational Ethics on Cheating Among College Students
A successful female crack dealer
Fishy business
Deviance as delight
The 'high' seas
Criminal commitment among drug dealers
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2020 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |